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  • Fear not, for he deemeth thee of the children of the sea; but, when he seeth thee, he will know thee to be of the children of the land, and he will surely entreat thee honourably and restore thee to the land.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And as he was led to the gallows he took his hawk and plucked the feathers from off it, and bade show it to his father; and when the king saw it, then he said, “Now may folk behold that he deemeth my honour to be gone away from me, even as the feathers of this hawk;” and therewith he bade deliver him from the gallows.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • So, if thou take advantage of his mildness and raise thee to a rank beyond that which he deemeth thy due, thou wilt be like the hunter, whose wont it was to trap wild beasts for their pelts and cast away the flesh.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he who deemeth all women alike,475 there is no remedy for the disease of his insanity.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • For by all this she deemeth to lower thy pride and abate thy valour, and to make every moment of today a terror to thy flesh and thy soul, so that thereby thou mayest thole the bitterness twice over.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Hearken to the lovely lady! quoth the carline, how she deemeth me to be none other than the great God himself, to hold the winds in the hollow of my hand, and still the waves with a word!

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • “So,” concludes the narrator, “he who deemeth all women alike there is no remedy for the disease of his insanity.”

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Will we do well? said the dwarf; yonder is a knight at the cross, let us put it both upon him, and as he deemeth so shall it be.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • And verily it was his own overweening that let him fall between my hands, yet hath he learned no lesson from his disasters, but deemeth he can crush me with haughty words.

    The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002

  • But he is like unto a child who deemeth the world will tremble if it but upraiseth its sword.

    The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002

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